I have a virtual machine that I use for nothing other than to VPN into work. My PC is a dual core Athlon that can apparently run the two cores at different speeds, which leads VMWare to incorrectly calculate the time. The solution to this problem, according to VMWare’s Knowledge Base, is to disable power […]
I just finished to listening to The 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferriss. Although the things he proposes won’t work for everyone, it’s still a fascinating book for the ideas it contains about how to rearrange your life so you enjoy your working years more. I’ve heard the term “Deferred Life Plan” recently and it […]
I returned the Nuvi 350 GPS I bought a few days ago, and picked up a Mio C520. It was $50 more than the Nuvi, but it’s a higher-resolution widescreen device, with Bluetooth, and with all the MioMap features I found lacking on the Nuvi. And it boots up instantly. The one feature that really […]
Remember how I said I got the US model of the Mio C310,the C310x, a while back? Turns out that wasn’t a good thing after all. Mio has finally released an update to the Teleatlas maps that come with the C310x, but they’ve dropped support for Canada from the map set. People are upset about […]
I’m playing Bioshock on the Xbox 360 (which doesn’t seem to have any of the issues PC users are reporting regarding stability), and I’m loving it, but it does have its flaws. I think the main flaw I have with it, and this is probably just misplaced expectations, is the quality of the graphics. For […]
After listening to Scott Hanselman’s interview with Timothy Ferriss, I was intrigued by the Virtual Assistant concept. This is, basically, hiring a personal assistant, but one who works where labour is less expensive. There are companies that have sprung up to act as intermediaries between you and your virtual assistant, providing things like a pool […]
In case you were wondering if you can use the FireWire port on your Scientific Atlanta 8300HD box from Rogers to get video out… you can’t. At least, not yet. I tried hooking the Mac up and using the FireWire SDK to capture video, and while it can talk to the device and query it, […]
Google has rolled out a paid storage service, called Google Shared Storage. The part of it I don’t understand is why it’s so expensive. Here’s the storage I’m using: And here are the options for additional storage: A 500 gig hard disk is around $100 these days, and that will only get cheaper. Google has […]
I’m not talking about that guy on the right. I’m talking about the new social networking site, spock.com. The different thing about Spock.com is that instead of asking people to sign up, they’re crawling other sites and pulling profiles, and populating their database with what’s already out there. So you go to Spock.com and enter […]
I’m selling an old laptop on eBay, and since posting the auction, I’ve had 5 “questions posed by potential buyers” that were spam. eBay lets buyers ask questions about the products being sold, and because these questions could be from potential buyers (and always were, my experience, up until yesterday), sellers need to read and […]